Virge and TV-out

[Adam Sulmicki]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex Deucher wrote:

> On 10/31/06, Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar.umd.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> 
>> > You'll need to run s3switch after starting X since the X driver
>> > programs the hardware directly.  It may not work since I don't know
>> > what state the bios thinks it's in after the X driver writes the mode
>> > to the hardware.  In which case you'd probably have to add bios mode
>> > setting support to the driver for s3switch to work.
>> 
>> ah!
>> Well still no go. Does not seem to significantly help.
>> 
>
> the bios interface may be different as well.  If you feel like messing
> with this, you could take a look at the source to s3switch and the vbe
> code in the Xorg savage driver.

I think the reason why it might be failing is that savage driver has 
"UseBIOS" option which seems to be required for s3switch.

Certainly the s3switch web page says it is a must.

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